Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932669AbZADAMO (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2009 19:12:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760140AbZADAL6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2009 19:11:58 -0500 Received: from ribosome.natur.cuni.cz ([195.113.57.20]:38521 "EHLO ribosome.natur.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760062AbZADAL5 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2009 19:11:57 -0500 Message-ID: <495FFECB.5040001@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:11:55 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?TWFydGluIE1PS1JFSsWg?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Duane Griffin CC: Pavel Machek , kernel list , Andrew Morton , tytso@mit.edu, mtk.manpages@gmail.com, rdunlap@xenotime.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: document ext3 requirements References: <20090103123813.GA1512@ucw.cz> <495FD5D7.2040907@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> <20090103222957.GG1666@elf.ucw.cz> <495FEE66.9080903@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> <495FF9CE.2020908@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1245 Lines: 26 Duane Griffin wrote: > 2009/1/3 Martin MOKREJŠ : >> Why does not "mount -ro" die when it would have to replay the journal >> with a message that user must run fsck.ext3 in order to be able to mount >> it albeit read-only? Still I would prefer having an extra switch to >> force mount RO while not touching the journal for disk forensics. >> I think that would also prevent the cases when a LiveCD/rescue distribution >> would not mount+replay it automagically but user would really have to >> provide the switch to the command. I am really not using the recovery >> boot cd to touch my partitions in some cases unwillingly. > > Well, that would make things rather tricky. As in, shutting down > uncleanly would render your system unbootable. ??? If I am booted off a CD/DVD drive I just do not want my system to be touched. I am fine if the dist mounts my drives automagically in read-only mode but if that currently forces journal replay then no, thanks. ;) M. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/